In history, year 1941 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1941.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 02 january | Second World War-Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales, was severely damaged by German bombing during the Cardiff Blitz. |
| 05 january | Second World War-Australian and British troops defeated Italian forces in Bardia, Libya, the first battle of the war in which an Australian Army formation took part. |
| 10 january | Greco-Italian War: The Greek army captured the strategically important Klisura Pass in Albania. |
| 21 january | Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania, the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom, killing 125 Jews. |
| 05 february | Second World War-British and Free French forces began the Battle of Keren to capture the strategic town of Keren in Italian Eritrea. |
| 23 february | Plutonium was first chemically identified by chemist Glenn T. Seaborg and his team at the University of California, Berkeley. |
| 04 march | Second World War: British Commandos successfully executed Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands of Norway. |
| 11 march | World War II-The Lend-Lease Act was signed into law, allowingthe United States to supply the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China,France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material. |
| 15 march | Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines took its first flight, making it the oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name. |
| 27 march | Encouraged by the British Special Operations Executive, a group of pro-Western Serb-nationalist Royal Yugoslav Air Force officers planned and conducted a coup d'état after Yugoslavia joined the Axis powers. |
| 29 march | Second World War-British Royal Navy and Australian Navy ships intercepted and sank or severely damaged the ships of the Italian Regia Marina near Crete. |
| 06 april | World War II The Axis Powers began both Operation Marita and Directive no. 25, invading Greece and Yugoslavia, respectively. |
| 10 april | World War II-The Independent State of Croatia was established, with Ustaše leader Ante Pavelic as head of the puppet government of the Axis powers. |
| 16 april | World War II-After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia ten daysearlier, Ante Pavelic declared a new government in Croatia to be led by the fascist Ustaše. |
| 27 april | Boris Kidri? and Edvard Kardelj founded the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation, the main anti-fascist Slovene civil resistance and political organization. |
| 01 may | Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered. |
| 06 may | American entertainer Bob Hope performed the first of his manyshows for the United Service Organizations. |
| 10 may | World War II-Nazi leader Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland,claiming to be on a peace mission. |
| 12 may | Z3, the world’s first working programmable and fully automatic digital computer was presented to an audience of scientists in Berlin on May 12, 1941. Z3 was designed by German civil engineer Konard Zuse who is often regarded as the inventor of computer. |
| 12 may | German engineer Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automaticcomputer, to an audience of scientists in Berlin. |
| 25 may | Sagarmal Gopa, a devoted freedom fighter of India was arrested in Jaisalmer. He opposed anti-people policies of then rulers of Jaisalmer. He was expelled from Jaisalmer and Hyderabad. Even in exile he continued to work for freedom movement. He was tortured in prison for years. He died in the prison on 4 April 1946. |
| 31 may | The United Kingdom completed its re-occupation of Iraq, returning 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II. |
| 01 june | World War II - After the first mainly airborne invasion in military history, Crete surrendered to Nazi Germany. |
| 05 june | Second Sino-Japanese War:- During one sortie in a five-year bombing campaign on Chongqing, 4, 000 people died of as phyxiation when the tunnel they were hiding in became blocked. |
| 22 june | Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which began on 22 June 1941. Over the course of the operation, about four million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded Soviet Russia along a 2,900 kilometer front, the largest invasion force in the history of warfare. |
| 22 june | World War II: As over 4.5 million Axis troops began their invasion of the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian Activist Front started anuprising to liberate Lithuania from Soviet occupation and establish a new government. |
| 04 july | German AB-Aktion operation in Poland: After capturing Lwów, the Nazis executed approximately 45 professors of the University of Lwów. |
| 06 july | Offensive to encircle soviet armies was launched by Nazi Germany during World War 2. This offensive took place near the city of Smolensk. This is also known as battle of Smolensk. The battle of Smolensk resulted in German victory. |
| 07 july | Beirut was captured by Free France force and British forces. This event took place during the Second World War. Free France forces were the forces commanded by government in exile of France which was rose after the fall of France. |
| 10 july | The Holocaust-A group of non-Jewish ethnic Poles from around the near by area murdered hundreds of Jewish residents of Jedwabne inoccupied Poland. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 03 October | Andrea de Adamich / Racing Car Driver / Italy |
| 04 March | James Zagel / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 05 July | Epeli Nailatikau / Politician / Fiji |
| 09 September | Otis Redding / Writer / United States of America |
| 12 July | Benny Parsons / Racing Car Driver / United States of America |
| 15 May | Jaxon / Publisher / United States of America |
| 16 November | Angelo Gilardino / Guitarist / Italy |
| 17 February | Julia McKenzie / Actress / United Kingdom |
| 18 December | Wadada Leo Smith / Composer / United States of America |
| 19 February | David Gross / Academic / United States of America |
| 20 August | Jo Ramírez / Racing Car Driver / Mexico |
| 21 January | Elaine Showalter / Author / United States of America |
| 22 November | Volker Roemheld / Biologist / Germany |
| 24 March | Michael Masser / Writer / United States of America |
| 24 May | Bob Dylan / Writer / United States of America |
| 26 July | Jean Baubérot / Historian / France |
| 27 September | Peter Bonetti / Footballer / United Kingdom |
| 27 March | Liese Prokop / Politician / Austria |
| 28 June | Joseph Goguen / Scientist / United States of America |
| 28 April | Ann-Margret / Actress / United States of America |
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
|---|
| 02 November | Arun Shourie / Journalist / India |
| 02 November | Arun Shourie / Journalist / India |
| 30 September | Kamalesh Sharma / Academic / India |
| 08 February | Jagjit Singh / Writer / India |
| 21 June | Aloysius Paul D'Souza / Bishop / India |
| 05 January | Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi / Cricketer / India |
| 04 January | Kalpnath Rai / Politician / India |
| 17 August | Dr. Y V Reddy / Civil servant / India |
| 02 September | Sadhana Shivdasani / Actress / India |
| 04 September | Sushil Kumar Shinde / Politician / India |
| 17 August | Dr. Bimal Jalan / Bureaucrat / India |
| 31 July | Amar Singh Chaudhary / Politician / India |
| 02 September | Sadhna Shivdasani / Actress / India |
| 21 November | Anandiben Patel / Politician / India |
| 31 July | Amarsinh Chaudhary / Politician / India |
| 04 September | Sushilkumar Shinde / Politician / India |
| NA October | Jatin Das / Painter / India |
| 28 December | Intikhab Alam / Cricketer / India |
| 04 January | Anjana Mumtaz / Actress / India |
| NA NA | Veer Bahadur Singh / Politician / India |
